| "I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)" »Mark Twain |
| "When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one." »Mark Twain |
| "A compliment is like a kiss through a veil." »Victor Hugo |
| "Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt." »Kim Hubbard |
| "A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." »Eleanor Hamilton |
| "The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means." »Clarence Darrow |
| "Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are." »Henry Fielding |
| "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." »Dr. |
| "Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance." »Dale Carnegie |
| "Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem." »William Shakespeare |
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